The Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on 3 November that there was no current ban on the printing, distribution or recall of Sayyid Qutb’s book “Yoldaki İşaretler.” The office said that, upon its request, Antalya 5th Criminal Judgeship of Peace lifted the ban in its decision dated 16 October 2026 and numbered 2026/7937. Antalya 1st Criminal Judgeship of Peace had previously prohibited the printing, distribution and sale of the Beka Publishing edition of the book under decision No. 2026/2840 and ordered the seizure of existing copies across Türkiye. The Press and Publishing Union and Özgür-Der Chair Rıdvan Kaya criticized the ban. The issue came to the fore in an investigation in which 15 people were arrested in Ankara and Mersin, where the books “Yoldaki İşaretler,” “Cihad ve Şehadet” and “Davetin Temel Özelliği” were treated as banned publications.
4 November 2026
Ufkumuz Haber